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Classical Food, Alternative Proteins and Cultivated Meat: A Wide Product Range

Scale Up with Sartorius—From Research and Lab to Pilot and Manufacturing

Sartorius has a long and successful experience supporting the pharma and biotech industries. This has sharpened our expertise, fine-tuned our products and now puts us in prime position to support food tech and food production. Particularly in the area of novel foods like cultivated meats from animal slaughter-free stem cells including seafood, and new dairy where microorganisms and mammalian cells are key. As a supplier, we are a one-stop shop for this rapidly developing and highly competitive market. We are also leaders in protein purification in the baby food market.

Partnering a one-stop shop with ultra-high standards and deep regulatory knowledge puts you in prime position. With time to market and optimization both vital, Sartorius will get you there not only faster but also more cost-effectively:

  • Expertise in cultivation and purification technology required for microorganisms and mammalian cell cultures
  • Data analytics software to ensure fastest development and, later on, optimal processes and actionable insights
  • Complete range of crossflow technologies to separate and concentrate the protein of interest
  • Leader in protein purification

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Cultivated Meat

The development of powerful cell culture media strategies has dramatically changed the way cultivated meat is produced. Sartorius is ideally placed to support your cell banking project by preserving the stem cells and enabling their repartition. Our proven instrumentation technology has been implemented in cell-culture labs and pilot plants. What’s more, our product portfolio covers upstream and downstream processes—from initial research all the way to full-scale manufacturing up to 2,000 L per bioreactor, and even more in parallel.

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Simplify Your Cultivated Meat Process

Research Phase (15 mL to 250 mL)
Benchtop Development Phase (1 L to 10 L)
Pilot Phase (50 L to 200 L) Single-Use Technologies
Manufacturing (200 L)

Plant-Based Food and Mycoproteins

The market for tasty, healthy, and nutritious vegan food is a competitive one, especially when price and speed to market are also critical. To help customers face the challenge and address their plant-based and mycoprotein research needs, Sartorius delivers process characterization thanks to Ambr® 250 and Biostat® B & B-DCU. You also get the benefit of our wide experience in aseptic transfers that can safeguard your process and limit the risk of contamination.

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Fermentation-Based Dairy

The challenge for many industries using fermentation of lactobacillus to provide new dairy alternatives is to be price competitive with regular animal-based dairy products. However, Sartorius can help you develop more efficient processes thanks to our deep knowledge and experience.

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Food Ingredients

When you supply classical ingredients like aromas, textures, colors, flavors, and yeast to the food industry, you want to be first on the market, develop the best products and set an attractive price.
Which, in turn, demands more efficient and cost-effective processes—as well as more sustainable solutions that are increasingly demanded.

Sartorius can help you develop the ideal process thanks to our deep knowledge and experience.

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User Guide

Classical Food, Alternative Proteins and Cultivated Meat - A Wide Product Range

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Venting Filters for Food and Beverage Applications

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Filtration Solutions - For Food and Beverage Applications Only

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Food Quality Control: Tips and Tricks for Your Lab

There are a lot of steps that can optimize your food workflow process in your lab. Get to know these great tips and tricks today.

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The implementation of a Design of Experiment (DOE) strategy will allow you to optimize the development of your final product (texture, taste, quality, and yield) and assure consistency and reproducibility while reducing time to market. Implementing data analytics software can help you answer the following questions: Can you meet cost and quality metrics? What will be the approximate cost of your finished product? How will your current recipe react to raw material variations? What variables will most affect your finished product?

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Ambr® 250 Modular is an innovative, easy-to-use, expandable benchtop system that incorporates 2 to 8 fully integrated single-use 100-250 mL mini bioreactors. It has a wide range of applications in process optimization and process characterization.

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Cell-cultured meat production requires scalable multi-use or single-use bioreactors for every stage of development, from clone selection and process development to pilot and full commercial production, including perfusion processing. Scalable, multi-parallel systems based on your needs help you quickly move from the early stages of clean meat discovery and development to mass production. In addition to high throughput systems and scalability, you need an easy-to-use platform that will automate much of the process to control oxygen levels, pH, temperature, in addition to advanced PAT such as Raman, cell capacitance, off-gas concentrations and higher-level recipe control.

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The Soxhlet method is a well-established procedure for extracting lipids from food samples. The method is relatively simple and can operate without constant supervision. It involves drying and grinding the food, then placing it in a special porous container called a thimble. The apparatus consists of three main parts: a flask, an extraction chamber, and a condenser. The process starts by heating the flask, which causes the solvent to evaporate and rise to the condenser. Here, it cools down and drips into the extraction chamber, where it permeates the sample in the extraction thimble, dissolving the lipids. These lipids are then carried back into the flask. The cycle repeats for 6 to 24 hours, depending on the sample and the extent of extraction required.

The Soxhlet method necessitates three distinct weight measurements: the initial weight of the sample, the weight of the empty flask, and the weight of the flask after the extraction is complete. These measurements are crucial for determining the mass of lipids extracted from the sample.

The Cellulose thimbles are more appropriate for the use in fast and reliable analytics in the field of food control and environmental monitoring. Commonly nuts & seeds, animal or plant butters, animal feeds, flour products, chocolate. In contrast to the glass fiber thimbles they will be typically used for fluid extraction. Glass fiber is recommended for filtration and the determination of dust and aerosols from air and gas streams. Their strength lies in:

  • Extraction with solvents incompatible with cellulose fibers
  • Extraction or particle retention at temperatures up to 500°C and in highly acidic media
  • Gravimetric determination of dust particles or aerosols from hot air and gas streams.
  • Extraction for specific biochemical analyses.

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It is important that the outer diameter (=inner diameter + 2x wall thickness) of the thimble fits into the extractor with a suitable pitch.

For example, an extractor with an NS 45/40 pitch (the 2nd number (40) is the inner diameter of the extractor) matches a slightly smaller inner diameter of the thimble, in this case 35mm ID.

And the length of the tube should be a little higher (0.5 - 1 cm) than the overflow siphon on the main body of the extractor, but lower than the bypass that goes into the main body above the siphon.

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